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Auction: 20030 - The Gary Diffen Collection of Australian Colonies Errors Part 1 - New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 101

(x) New South Wales
1902-03 Watermark Crown over "NSW" (III) Issue
2d. cobalt-blue vertical pair from top left corner with wing-margin at left, imperforate on three sides, fine mint. One of two recorded examples in private hands, although the other has not been seen since the Steinway sale in 1939. BW N15ba, $3000; S.G. 315. Photo

Note: The existence of this error was well known to collectors in the early years of the 20th Century. A mint vertical strip of ten, comprising five pairs, from the second pane of the sheet was discovered and subsequently divided up. One pair was sold to King George V and is now in the Royal Collection, whilst a strip of four was sold to H.L. White. Of the remaining two pairs, one was auctioned in the Steinway collection in 1939 and has not been seen since. This error was listed in the 2004 Stanley Gibbons catalogue in 2004 incorrectly as S.G. 302b.

provenance:
Colonel Harrie Evans, May 2002

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Sold for
£2,100

Starting price
£1200